The Bernard&Anne Spitzer
School of Architecture
SSA Robotics Lab
Continuous Collaboration Scroll
My final project concerns embracing the bond and care humans can bring to animals. It is about the preservation and protection of animals that a culture brings to a community of animals. I chose the Cotopaxi region of Ecuador as a physical context of continuous hilly but smooth landscape. The site is a large lake near the mountain which is significant to my roots. Animals there have been affected and need to be protected in this smooth, open, and exposed terrain with few trees.Continuity is very important to Preservation and Protection of living things. Therefore Continuity is the overall concept for my project.
Robots operate continuously and I have several projects which illustrate that.
The continuous scroll which was collaboratively and cooperatively produced by two people and the robot is similar to the way a community of humans can work together to preserve the continuity of animals lives. The robot continuously draws a figure is utilized. My solution to a sheltering preserve for animals is made up of a continuous surface similar to the scroll which offers physical protection by its curves and continuity. The robot was also used to produce visual representations of continuousness and transparency. The physical model shows the continuity and the variation in transparency which offers both protection and vision for the animals.
The preserve is a small, structured, and stable shelter protecting the animals on the continuous terrain/surface. The preserve has an open fence allowing the animals to see while standing and invisible and protected from view when lying down. The small, stable shelter by its continuity shelters and protects them.
The continuous scroll was produced by two people working together to shift and roll the paper while the robot continuously repeated drawing a figure with a pen tool. The humans together move the paper in a left, right, clockwise, or counterclockwise direction while the robot is continuously drawing with the pen tool.
